At the end of July, the aggressor country took into custody the deputy head of the defense department Dmitry Bulgakov (responsible for the material and technical supply of the Russian Armed Forces), accusing the functionary of corrupt actions – collusion with suppliers on “kickbacks” for replacing beef in the rations of the occupiers with cheaper pork.
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As NBN reports with a link to material from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), on Friday, August 2, the former deputy commander for logistics of the 144th motorized rifle division of the 20th combined arms army of the Moscow Military District, Colonel Dmitry Peshkov, was arrested in the Russian Federation. , accused of theft of funds for the purchase of food rations.
According to ISW analysts, Peshkov's arrest appears to be the next stage in the Kremlin's focused efforts aimed at removing senior Russian officials from the Defense Ministry. ;RF. It is assumed that this trend may indicate attempts to introduce indirect punishments by the command for the failures of subordinate units, or in order to leave only loyal and obedient officers in the ranks of Putin’s troops.
In particular , units of the 144th motorized rifle division, conducting an offensive in the area of the settlements of Terny and Nevskoye in the Luhansk region, achieved limited success, and recently lost part of the territory due to local counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this region.
Previously we wrote that British intelligence assessed the prospects for eradicating corruption in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation after the arrest of a number of officials.